LOVETTE CHRISTOPHER FORBES, better known as LOVEY hailed from Whitby, North Caicos is a remarkable organist, guitarist, writer and singer. As child of God, Lovely pulls all of his interests and belief together in music that speaks to and from our Islands. Lovey one time expressed that “He gear most of his songs with the truth, something related to the truth. His mean love in life is to manifest God only.” He has spent his earlier years searching and experimenting. These experiences led to some unusual combinations – from his religious blend of Christianity. Although Lovey lived in the Bahamas for ten years during the 1960’s – EARLY 1970’S and had the opportunity to play the keyboard for Smokey 007 and had a hit song “The cat Eat The Rat and The Dog Eat The Cat,” his heart was home. In 1976 he returned to North Caicos and lay down his roots at home. On returning home he began composing and performing also exclusively on guitar, an instrument he had loved since he was 11, when he played his first cords. Lovey had always found inspiration home in North Caicos, his first song as a young man; he has ever written was “IF YOU BELIEVE IN ME, I WILL BELIVE IN YOU.” But his first song on his return in 1976 was “Whitby Paradise,” because that’s how he felt about his home. He have since written many songs about his homeland, Turks and Caicos Islands, extolling its beauty, history, the diversity and unity, the sea and the reef. His compositions are a sort of musical tourist brochure, giving bits of geography, history, folklore and description that draw an inviting picture of the Turks and Caicos Islands. If you listen carefully, to his songs, you would hear John Glenn’s splash down near Grand Turk, changes in the islands, our past as a haven for pirates, old conch is sweeter than the fresh conch and don’t kill no mosquitoes on my clothes. Lovey teaches people about our people, our country but most of all he loves his country. Over the years Lovey found his peace and in his combination of music that he has also made our music and created what we know today as “COMBINA MUSIC.” He once described his COMBINA MUSIC as “It sound like Calypso, It sound like Reggae, It sound like Rock & Roll, It sound like Country, but it’s got a little gospel flavor. A little Soca, with a Disco beat, with a little Meringue but it’s called “COMBINA.” WHAT YOU SAY? COMBINA (TELL ME THAT AGAIN? COMBINA) WE LOVE AND APPRECIATE YOU LOVEY!!!! THANKS!!!
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:18:05 +0000
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